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Westmoreland Country Club

Westmoreland Country Club was founded in 1911 when a group of men from Evanston Golf Club, located on the canal banks of Evanston, became dissatisfied with the space limitations of their course as the City of Evanston expanded. David McCurrach Jr. and John N. Welter, Westmoreland's first President, arranged financial backing from their friend William S. Mason, and then sold 300 memberships in the new club before work had begun on the new golf course.
The men received options from farmers on all of the real estate from Golf Road to Glenview Road and from Ewing Avenue in Evanston to what is now Skokie Boulevard. The committee selected the 128-acre rectangular site on which Westmoreland now stands because it was underlaid by a 25-foot bed of gravel, which provides ideal drainage for turf.

Baha'I House of Worship

a Baháʼí temple in Wilmette, Illinois. It is the second Baháʼí House of Worship ever constructed, the oldest surviving, and one of eight continental temples, constructed to represent all of North America.[2]

The temple was designed by French-Canadian architect Louis Bourgeois (1856-1930), who received design feedback from ʻAbdu'l-Bahá during a visit to Haifa in 1920. To convey the Baháʼí principle of the unity of religion, Bourgeois incorporated a variety of religious architecture and symbols. Although ʻAbdu'l-Bahá participated in a ground-breaking ceremony in 1912 that laid a cornerstone, construction began in earnest in the early 1920s and was delayed significantly through the Great Depression and World War II. Construction picked up again in 1947 and the temple was dedicated in a ceremony in 1953.

Baháʼí Houses of Worship are intended to include several social, humanitarian, and educational institutions clustered around the temple, although none have been built to such an extent. The temples are not intended as a local meeting place, but are instead open to the public and used as a devotional space for people of any faith.